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Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
Education & Development

Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...research degree...What ethical principles apply when planning and conducting research? Research ethics are the moral principles that govern how researchers conduct their studies (Wellcome Trust, 2014). As there are elements of uncertainty and risk involved in any study, every researcher has to consider how they can uphold these ethical principles and conduct the ......
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...research for policy and advocacy work, is for you. Whether you are employed as a policy officer or carrying out voluntary work, this course will explain how to present clear and effective evidence to support your proposals. It will explain how to design, carry out and present research to support your policy project...How can you effectively influence decision makers to...
What is child-led research and why is it important?
Education & Development

What is child-led research and why is it important?

...led by children and young people is crucial - here's three reasons why...[young people doing project work] Imagine you are 12 years old and you are given the opportunity to learn how to do your own social research into a topic that inspires you. Your research will go beyond what is already known and what is available in books or online etc. It will be you creating new...
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...research: education, childhood & youth, you will build on your understanding of how to evaluate research by thinking about a fundamental part of the research process: research perspectives and approaches. Some of the different ways of researching situations that can arise when working in education and working with children and young people will be examined. You will...
Who needs research ethics? Take the challenge!
Society, Politics & Law

Who needs research ethics? Take the challenge!

...research ethics is really a researcher's best friend. You'll be taken through a case to look at where and when you think the ethics committee might step in and why this would be necessary. Meet a fictional committee and become a member!...Select here to begin the interactive... [Research Ethics] Click the image above to launch the interactive Instructions For best...
Why is scientific research part of emergency response?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why is scientific research part of emergency response?

...researcher along might be a waste of resource. But Medicins Sans Frontières are finding research is a key part of response. Anita Makri explains why...[Médecins Sans Frontières ebola treament centre in Maghuraka, Sierra Leone, 2014] An MSF treatment centre in Sierra Leonne, during the 2014 ebola crisis You have a mission to help people caught up in an emergency –...
Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?

...research, asking 'How do we know?'...[A mother and a child] How do I know in research? I try to inquire beneath the surface whenever I research any topic. In Knowing Mothers, for example, an ESRC-funded project exploring the identity changes involved when women become mothers, we developed methods that — moving beyond discourse — were sensitive to affect, embodiment...
Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...research time in the last two decades. My current interest is to investigate the ways in which artistic engagements in contemporary Brazil narrate the political past of the heavy dictatorship period, and how this bears on imagination for the future. This emerged while as visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo I engaged in discussions with students about...